IUF affiliate Solidarnosc has successfully run an organising initiative among the workers in Coca-Cola Radzymin near Warsaw, Poland. More than 100 workers out of a workforce of close to 300 joined the new union local, more than doubling the number of union members in the country, where previously smaller locals existed only in the factory in Lodz and a distribution center in Gdynia.

The shock announcement by Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) that it is to close its Malvern Water bottled plant has been attacked as badly handled by Unite the union today (Thursday), and shows no respect for a loyal workforce.